![]() ![]() Outside is the world from which she has been severed: her young son, Jackson, and the San Francisco of her youth. It’s 2003 and Romy Hall, named after a German actress, is at the start of two consecutive life sentences at Stanville Women’s Correctional Facility, deep in California’s Central Valley. FINALIST for the MAN BOOKER PRIZE and t he NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARDĪn instant New York Times bestseller from two-time National Book Award finalist Rachel Kushner, The Mars Room earned tweets from Margaret Atwood-“gritty, empathic, finely rendered, no sugar toppings, and a lot of punches, none of them pulled”-and from Stephen King-“ The Mars Room is the real deal, jarring, horrible, compassionate, funny.” ![]()
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